Comments on: Zaha Hadid’s Island, Radical Plan for Bilbao http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/ Architecture Tutorials 3D max Library Download AutoCAD ArchiCAD Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: xm carreira http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/#comment-8012 xm carreira Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:38:19 +0000 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/#comment-8012 Oh my God! I was born clos to Bilbao and I guess the people from Bilbao will use for Hadid's island the same solution they have used for Calatrava's footbridge with slipping glass pavement: as a way to protest the people destroy the pavement with stones every time a citizen slips and falls!!! Oh my God! I was born clos to Bilbao and I guess the people from Bilbao will use for Hadid’s island the same solution they have used for Calatrava’s footbridge with slipping glass pavement: as a way to protest the people destroy the pavement with stones every time a citizen slips and falls!!!

]]> By: Kris Montague http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/#comment-7973 Kris Montague Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:43:34 +0000 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/#comment-7973 The definition of an artist is one who creates a problem, and then solves it. Obviously they are asking Hadid for a piece of art--she is designing a new city that doesn't necessarily have any surroundings or buildings to absolutely respond to. Calatrava doesn't build bridges, he makes art. Frank Gehry doesn't build buildings, he makes art. The Sydney opera house is a piece of art. I.M. Pei's glass pyramid doesn't "respond" to its surroundings, but it sure solves some problems. Often designers see problems that the client cannot imagine, that's what the designer is being paid for, to imagine all scenarios, and come up with a good solution. Art happens! The best solutions can be complex or simple, or both--for example, Central Park in NYC. The initial vision of the Park was simplicity itself, and yet the past hundred years have strengthened and irrevocably engaged NY in a long-term love affair. Central Park is NYC. The best solutions are an artform of their own. Architecture is not "always" about responding to the surrounding fabric. Sometimes the surrounding fabric needs a good shakeup and total rethink. Sometimes it needs to be swept away. It really depends on the program, and obviously Bilbao has Hadid on the mind. Obviously Bilbao wants what an architect of her reputation will give them. Nothing ordinary and unprosaic and responding to the neighborhood across the street. The definition of an artist is one who creates a problem, and then solves it. Obviously they are asking Hadid for a piece of art–she is designing a new city that doesn’t necessarily have any surroundings or buildings to absolutely respond to. Calatrava doesn’t build bridges, he makes art. Frank Gehry doesn’t build buildings, he makes art. The Sydney opera house is a piece of art. I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid doesn’t “respond” to its surroundings, but it sure solves some problems. Often designers see problems that the client cannot imagine, that’s what the designer is being paid for, to imagine all scenarios, and come up with a good solution. Art happens! The best solutions can be complex or simple, or both–for example, Central Park in NYC. The initial vision of the Park was simplicity itself, and yet the past hundred years have strengthened and irrevocably engaged NY in a long-term love affair. Central Park is NYC. The best solutions are an artform of their own. Architecture is not “always” about responding to the surrounding fabric. Sometimes the surrounding fabric needs a good shakeup and total rethink. Sometimes it needs to be swept away. It really depends on the program, and obviously Bilbao has Hadid on the mind. Obviously Bilbao wants what an architect of her reputation will give them. Nothing ordinary and unprosaic and responding to the neighborhood across the street.

]]> By: BarnaStil http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/#comment-7930 BarnaStil Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:09:29 +0000 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/11/zaha-hadids-island-radical-plan-for-bilbao/#comment-7930 I think something was lost in translation... “This is about more than just the image. It is about creating a city to live in. We all have dreams of how a city could be, and I believe this is the closest thing to those dreams.” What this is really saying is that Isozaki, Gehry, and Calatrava aren´t bringing in enough tourist dollars so we´re going to make a giant land grab to generate a lot of taxes and try to rejuvenate the slumping Spanish construction industry. I think something was lost in translation…

“This is about more than just the image. It is about creating a city to live in. We all have dreams of how a city could be, and I believe this is the closest thing to those dreams.”

What this is really saying is that Isozaki, Gehry, and Calatrava aren´t bringing in enough tourist dollars so we´re going to make a giant land grab to generate a lot of taxes and try to rejuvenate the slumping Spanish construction industry.

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